Treatment - The idea for our coursework is a younger based romantic comedy set in a british school but with sterotypes seen in America. This is the plot that we thought out while in class and talling ot over what would work and keep the conventions but also have good characters and story.

• Music that is younger and modern and bold titles- 'Smooth' is title
• Boy(Jimmy) and comical friend(Elmo) are walking to school.
• Get to school and see popular girl(Kate) who the boy likes. She waves and Jimmy thinks she is waving at him but she isn't so he turns the wave into smoothing his hair which Elmo tells him is smooth and tells him he has not got a chance.
• Kate was waving at her boyfriend(Brad) who is a bullybut a popular boy who is everything Jimmy is not.
• Kate and Jimmy are partnered together in which he says something stupid and she ignores him for the rest of the class.
• This will be the opening sequence where the audience will meet the characters and get to know a little of the story but not what is going to happen between them. However we did think of what would happen in the rest of the film if we were to continue it.
• However Kate comes into trouble with her work and asks Jimmy for help and the friendship grows.
• Brad finds out and beats Jimmy up in which Kate sees and sticks up for Jimmy then breaks up with Brad.
• Kate loses social status within school and blames it on Jimmy.
• Have to present the final project andJimmy helps Kate.
• She realises how good he is and they get together.

This we are thinking is are first plot if there was a whole film and we are in the stages of what is going to happpen in the opening sequence but we have got an intial idea of what we want it to be like and the characters. It is a romcom for teenagers very much like 10 Things i Hate About You and that sort of typical story but in a British school. This would be the twist to set it apart from these films. There would be certain conventions we will show to keep it within the genre. These are

• Young modern music
• Bold Titles
• Monolouge
• Generic characters
• Location- school
• A clear story of romance.